The Sunday Read: ‘Ghosts on the Glacier’

周日阅读:“冰川上的鬼魂”

The Daily

2024-01-07

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Fifty years ago, eight Americans set off for South America to climb Aconcagua, one of the world’s mightiest mountains. Things quickly went wrong. Two climbers died. Their bodies were left behind. Here is what was certain: A woman from Denver, maybe the most accomplished climber in the group, had last been seen alive on the glacier. A man from Texas, part of the recent Apollo missions to the moon, lay frozen nearby. There were contradictory statements from survivors and a hasty departure. There was a judge who demanded an investigation into possible foul play. There were three years of summit-scratching searches to find and retrieve the bodies. Now, decades later, a camera belonging to one of the deceased climbers has emerged from a receding glacier near the summit and one of mountaineering’s most enduring mysteries has been given air and light.
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  • Hi, my name is John Branch, and I've been a reporter at the New York Times since 2005.

  • I grew up in Colorado, skiing and hiking in the mountains.

  • But the people I write about are often doing things that I would never or could never do myself.

  • I think I live vicariously through them, and I find that readers sometimes do, too.

  • This story that you're about to hear began for me in 2020.

  • Right before COVID I got a note from somebody I didn't know, a journalist and mountain guide in Argentina named Pablo Bettencourt.

  • He said that he had a story that might interest me.

  • So we started talking, and he told me that some porters had found an old camera on a massive melting glacier atop Aconcagua.

  • It's a mountain in the Andes, the tallest in the world outside of Asia, and the camera had undeveloped film in it.

  • Then Pablo told me something else.

  • He said that the camera had a label on it and a Janet Johnson.

  • In 1973, eight Americans set out to summit Aconcagua.

  • It was an interesting expedition for a couple of reasons.